All about the X: HarvardX Town Hall on February 13

We are pleased to invite Harvard faculty members and instructors to our second HarvardX Town Hall meeting on course development and research (harvardx.harvard.edu and edx.org).

The Town Hall will take place on Wednesday, February 13, from 3 to 5 p.m. at Askwith Hall on the campus of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Askwith Hall is located on the first floor of Longfellow Hall at 13 Appian Way in Cambridge.

Rob Lue, professor of the practice of molecular and cellular biology and faculty director of HarvardX, will lead the Town Hall. The tentative agenda is as follows:

An intro to edX/HarvardX: Rob Lue, faculty director of HarvardX

Components of a HarvardX course or module: HarvardX team

Developing and offering a HarvardX course or module: HarvardX team

The faculty perspective: David Malan, senior lecturer on computer science and lead instructor for CS50x

Group discussion of course content ideas and modes of assessment (current options and future directions): Facilitated by Rob Lue